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Here
is a sample of some of the wonderful talent we work with.
There is so much more, so if you need something in particular,
just ask. In the meantime, we hope you have as much fun
listening to these excerpts as we had making them. Enjoy!
James
Adams has
narrated around 100 fiction and non-fiction audiobooks.
His distinctive British accent has been sought after for
books that range from Conan Doyle’s Professor
Challenger series to biographies, autobiographies,
and works of Christian philosophy. Aside from audiobooks,
he has also hosted a morning news show on public radio.
He has written 14 bestselling books of fiction and nonfiction
that have been translated into 12 languages. He learned
how to crochet while recovering from a bout of hepatitis
and the coasters created at that time are much sought after
collectors’ items.
Elijah Alexander has been working professionally as an actor for over 15 years. He has worked and lived in New York, where he did numerous productions including the Tony Award winning Broadway play, Metamorphoses. Elijah worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 2 years and has worked regionally at Denver Center, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Old Globe, Utah Shakespearean Festival and 2 seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. His Film/TV credits include Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Emily’s Reasons Why Not, JAG, Summerland, So Notorious, and Guiding Light. Elijah was the voice of Vayne Solidor in Final Fantasy XII and has done several voiceovers including GM, Best Buy and Coca-Cola Zero. He is currently the voice of Kenmore. As a child growing up, Elijah wanted to be Wolverine and while that ambition is still unfulfilled, he remains optimistic that it will be realized one day.
It
all started when her 2nd grade teacher said, "She reads
with such expression!" For 16 years, Tammie
Andreas'mellifluous
voice has been on commercials, narration projects, movie
trailers, documentaries, promos, videogames and more, for
Bank of America, HP, Xerox, Nike, and many others. She enjoys
southern accents and can serve high tea as a proper Southern
Belle, then ride a buckin' bronco in bawdy, country-lovin'
style. Yeee-haw!
Kelly
Birch
was born in Kent in England and has been using her voice
to entertain and educate for more than 20 years. While still
in England, she began her career as an actor with leading
roles in such plays as A Midsummer Night’s Dream
and Salad Days. Since moving to America Kelly has
continued her acting but has principally been a molecular
epidemiologist in Berkeley, California. She is the “Voice
of Alcatel-Lucent Technologies” (the European equivalent
of AT&T), where she is the voice that tens of millions
of customers hear on their mobile phone menus. Now a yoga
instructor, she has produced a bestselling audio CD on yoga
nidra. Kelly was once a Buddhist nun in Sri Lanka and worked
at Mother Theresa’s Home for the Destitute and Dying
in Calcutta.
Adam Black is a professional actor, director, narrator and producer in Nashville, TN. He hosts the TV show CMT Outsider on Country Music Television, and makes regular appearances on CMT Insider and Top 20 Countdown. He has appeared in hundreds of commercials and television shows since 2004 and holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Utah (in conjunction with the Sundance Institute). Also, he is the VP of Gabriel Communications, creators of the weekly TV series Country’s Family Reunion on RFD-TV. His favorite word is either “schtick” or “scuttlebutt,” but it is definitely an “s” word.
Traber Burns is a native of Louisiana, who began his acting career as a graduate of the American Conservative Theatre in San Francisco. He spent 30 years working in regional theatre, including the New York, Oregon, Alabama and Dallas Shakespeare Festivals. He then moved to Los Angeles after the birth of his son. After 5 years there, he moved with his family to Oregon, where he spends most of his time transporting his son to various activities.
Joe
Caron has
appeared on stage in numerous productions for Ashland Community
Theatre and Oregon Stage Works, most recently as male lead
in The Great American Trailer Park Musical. He
has been a union organizer, political operative, morning
drive radio host, public relations executive and e-commerce
engineer. A former divinity student who studied Latin and
Biblical Greek, has a bachelor's degree in English and Journalism
and a master's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science.
His past voicework includes projects for The King Arthur
Flour Company and Interactive Media Publishing. He's still
deciding what to be when he grows up. In the meantime, he
loves fine woodworking and fiddling with his 1963 Ford pickup.
Laura
Derocheremploys
her versatile voice as narrator, actress, speaker, singer/songwriter,
teacher, and voice-centered sound healer. She has performed
lead roles in Chicago, Santa Fe, and Oregon. Laura provides
both on-camera and voice talent for commericals and training
videos. She teaches theatre craft to children and voice
to singers of all ages. Laura weaves her original songs
throughout her inspiring talks, encouraging audiences to
expand their joy. In college, she delivered singing telegrams
dressed as a penguin.
David DeSantos is a professional actor and a company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has performed in theaters across the Midwest and west coast.He was born and raised in Los Angeles from an entertainment industry family. Both his grandparents were film editors in the 60's and his mother also ran a small production company. He lived his whole life around the post production side of the industry, and has maintained a career on the opposite side of the camera for many years. The love of his life is his dog, Skye, who showed up on his doorstep on Sept 2, 2000.
Bill
DeWees has
recorded thousands of voiceovers for radio/TV commercials,
audio books, phone system recordings, industrials, and training
narrations. He can best be described as warm, friendly,
and believable—the friend from next door. His projects
include work for Microsoft, National Geographic, Warner
Brothers, Lowe’s, Whirlpool, Ubisoft, Rosetta Stone,
and the Billy Graham Association. Bill’s varied background
and experiences as a radio personality, media consultant,
corporate training/learning executive, and college professor
give him a rich background to help in understanding the
context of many different voice-over projects. In addition
to his voice work, Bill enjoys running and has run the Chicago
Marathon twice.
David Drummond received an AudioFile Earphones award for his very first effort, Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay, a business book. Since then, he has recorded nearly fifty audiobooks for many different publishers and in many different genres, including historical non-fiction (The Slave Ship; Lords of the Sea), political commentary (The Big Con; The American Way of War), biography (Hope's Boy; Star -- How Warren Beatty Seduced America), current events (Fly By Wire; America Anonymous), fiction (Nose Down, Eyes Up; Three Girls and their Brother), economics (Discover Your Inner Economist; The Myth of the Rational Voter), military (Joker One; After the War Zone), and a particular favorite, fantasy (Sword of Bedwyr and The Age of Fire series). He lives with his family in Seattle.
Jorge
Garcia is
an energetic and sensitive Spanish voice talent, whose range
includes children's character narration to corporate training
videos. Some of his clients include NBAStore.com, Toys-R-Us,
NYC Board of Education, Pearson Education, Silverchair Learning,
and many healthcare and educational clients.
Nell Geisslinger began her professional career at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2002 as “The Maid” in Idiot’s Delight. She has been lucky enough to play many other wonderful characters (some with real names) at OSF and in regional theaters around the country since then. Some of her favorites are Elma Duckworth in Bus Stop, Catherine Simms in The Foreigner, and most recently Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. She is a staunch supporter of Biodiesel and is still trying to knit the perfect bikini.
Heather
Henderson has
brought her authentic, resonant voice and a full cast of
characters (from Scots nanny to Fargo housewife) to hundreds
of projects during her 20-year career. She earned her doctorate
at the Yale School of Drama, and her credits include production
dramaturgy on the world premiere of August Wilson's
Fences. She has published arts features and reviews
in newspapers across the U.S. and has won awards for poetry
and screenwriting. What seems to impress people most, though,
is that she was an extra in Animal House.
Dan
Hurst was
raised in Honduras and grew up speaking English and Spanish.
His bilingual versatility and expertise in the voiceover
world has been extolled by a long line of happy customers
such as Coca-Cola, Ford, Wal-Mart, Sprint, Macromedia, Butler
Manufacturing, and Hallmark. From commercial, corporate,
sales video or narration, Dan can crank out a finessed and
finished product faster than you can say ¡Hola!
Hewitt
Jamesis
an actor who splits his time between Los Angeles and Ashland,
OR. Originally from New Jersey, he has worked in New York
City and toured nationally with several theatre companies
in productions such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, and
Catch-22. His numerous side-careers include: Christmas
tree salesman, website designer, movie background artist,
barista, and, of course, audiobook narrator.
Jeremy
Johnson has
been a professional actor and singer for 25 years. His resume
lists top regional theaters, off-Broadway, TV episodes,
film, an online series, trade shows, many TV and radio commercials,
and now audio books. He lives in New York City with his
dog Wylie. His acting debut came in fifth grade, in the
role of Dummling in Dummling and the Golden Goose.
Emily
Sophia Knapp
is an actress. Her work spans the range from the sublime
to the ridiculous and from Shakespeare and Chekhov to Comcast
and Dunkin' Donuts. Now employed at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, she has also been heard in numerous audio books
and on National Public Radio. Living in Ashland, she walks
to the Grower's Market every week for her favorite tamales.
Gregory Linington has been acting on stages all over the U.S. and Europe since he was 8 years old. Some of his favorites roles include Tom Hamilton in East of Eden, Louis in Angels in America (Premiere Production, Czech Republic), Jaques in As You Like It, Edgar in King Lear, Armin in Equivocation (World Premiere), and he is now in his 11th season at the world renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He lived 5 years in Europe and the U.K., and has an avid interest in photography.
Eddie Lopez is a professional actor/singer/dancer/voiceover artist currently working for The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In three seasons with OSF some credits include: The Music Man, A Midsummer Nights Dream, She Loves Me, The Comedy of Errors, and Throne Of Blood. Some recent audiobook titles include: Follow Me to Freedom, and The Savage Detectives. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007 with a BFA in Acting. Eddie began recording audiobooks at the age of seven on his mothers tape deck. He even incorporated the little bell that tells you when to turn the page.
Tamara Marston has been an actor, singer and director for over 30 years. A career performer / musician, Tami has toured nationally with several groups and appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show and A&E’s Goodtime Café. Dividing her time between acting and singing gigs, choral conducting, music and stage directing, jingle and voiceover work, private and public teaching – and family!! – Tami feels very fortunate to make her living working in the arts. Her current favorite pastimes are nurturing her inner computer geek, mothering a softball goddess, and subbing in a Beatles’ tribute band (and on John’s guitar and vocals!! Shrieeek!!!).
Michael Mish has narrated nature films and done animation voice-overs since 1983, for Hanna Barbera, Ruby Spears, DIC and Disney as well as many national TV/Radio commercials. He has narrated numerous audio books, including "A Kick in the Attitude", as well as having composed the music for the "Conversations with God" series. A videographer and published author/composer, he lives in Ashland, Oregon. He teaches scuba, piano and voice. And, he loves to dance.
Kate
Mulligan
is currently an acting company member with the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival. Prior to her arrival in Ashland, Oregon, she worked
at theaters all over Los Angeles and New York, including
a nearly 20-year stint with Tim Robbins and his company
The Actors' Gang. Kate has been seen in countless commercials
and television shows such as Seinfeld, Desperate Housewives,
ER, Judging Amy, Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and
The Practice. Her Grandmother was with the Ziegfeld
Follies and her dad was the original writer/creator of Rowan
and Martin's Laugh-In.
Toni
Orans
started her 25-year stage career in NYC theaters, beginning
at “Circle on the Square and ending up in drama school
in London, training in the classics such as Shakespeare,
Ibsen, and Chekhov. She keeps busy now with commercial,
animation, and documentary narration, as well as hosting
a radio show for 7 years, reading classic children's and
adult literature live on the air.
Jonathan
Petersen is
a narrator of audiobooks from multiple publishers. A graduate
of Moody Bible Institute and the University of Wisconsin,
he earned an MBA degree in marketing from the University
of Phoenix. His career positions include radio broadcaster,
founding religion news editor at United Press International
Radio Network, and senior director of corporate and Internet
communications at Zondervan. Jonathan is an adjunct instructor
in graduate and undergraduate courses in communications,
marketing, and public relations at Spring Arbor University
and Cornerstone University, an educator with The Council
of Advisors at Gerson Lehrman Group, NY, and a member of
the Online News Association.
John
Pruden is
a full-time professional voice actor. He has sung competitively
in an a capella ensemble on the International stage, is
a respected voiceover instructor/producer/director, and
regularly performs in a comedy improv troupe. Through his
company, Voice Acting With Character, John records corporate
narrations, animation and video game characters, radio and
TV commercials, and audiobooks! John first started talking
on the radio as a U.S. Army UH-60 “Black Hawk”
assault helicopter pilot, but only air traffic control got
to hear him at that time.
Rebecca
Rogers has
been a professional actor/performer since 1987. She has
been recording audiobooks since 2003, narrating a wide variety
of genres from science fiction to Nancy Drew. She is also
an improvisational performer and teacher, co-founding troupes
in Oregon and Washington. Rebecca currently lives in Ashland,
Oregon, and works for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Having
traveled the world, her lifelong dream is to be a photographer
for National Geographic.
S.A.
Rogers is
a professional actor, having performed at many theatres
in the west including the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. While
with OSF, he has been an audio describer for the sight impaired
on numerous productions, including Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf, Life is a Dream,Trojan Women, and
Henry V. When he is not working, he prefers to spend
his time on the beautiful Oregon Coast.
Traci
Svendsgaard has
been a program host and announcer on both commercial and
public radio for 30 years. A seasoned narrator, she has
voiced thousands of commercials, numerous industrial and
trade videos, on-hold and voicemail systems, and websites
and audiobooks, including the classics, romance, self-help,
children's, and more. Traci and her husband produce a weekly
Rock ‘n Roll/Radio Theatre program for JPR in southern
Oregon, where they live TV free and addicted to books.
Raymond
Scully's media
experience spans 25 years. His distinctive voice has been
heard on TV commercials, video productions, and an ensemble
cast for the fictional audiobook Lost Angel. He
has been a DJ on commercial and public radio, emceed live
stage events, and written and acted for Community Theater,
as well as for a comedy show on public access television
in Eugene, Oregon. He is also fluent in all dialects of
cat.
U.
Jonathan Toppo has
been a professional actor for over 20 years. He received
his BFA in Acting from the University of Connecticut, after
which he travelled across the pond to study classical theatre
at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. Jonathan
moved to Ashland in 1991 to work at the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival where he has been employed for 19 seasons. During
this time he has performed in a myriad of roles such as
Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Dad in Distracted, Philippe Petit in UP,
and Irvin in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Jonathan
is also the resident Fight Director for the Oregon Shakespeare
Festival. A piece of choreography went wrong during the
final act of Mad Forest—Jonathan's nose was
broken by an errant punch and he proceeded to bleed all
over his bride's white wedding dress until the curtain (thankfully)
came down.
An
actor, composer, and musician, Eric
Turner's first
stage appearance at the age of five was as the youngest
son in the King and I. Since then his work in contemporary
theatre has included roles such as Jack in David Ive’s
Ancient History, Buddy in David Lindsay-Abaire's
Kimberly Akimbo, and Larry in Patrick Marber's Closer.
Acting itself has always been combined with a love of literature
and so audiobook narration became a natural extension that
allows Eric to share some of his joy of the written and
spoken words with a broader audience.
Adam
Verner is
a voiceover artist and actor based in Chicago. He's worked
extensively on stage and screen and narrated a diverse array
of audiobooks, from fiction and fantasy to nonfiction self-help
and history. He's been involved in the world of audiobooks
since 1980 when his father recorded Golden Books for him
to listen to. Adam holds his MFA in acting from the Chicago
College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, and
his commercial voiceover clients include Gillette, Kmart,
McDonald's, Harley Davidson, Wrigley, Keystone Beer, and
many others. If he could be any animal in the world it would
definitely be an orangutan.
Christine
Williams mesmerized
audiences as a lead actor for the world-renowned Oregon
Shakespeare Festival for 8 years, and she has also sung
with the Rogue Opera. She currently teaches singing to actors
and acting to singers at SOU, and narrates fiction and nonfiction
audiobooks, with a special fondness for character work,
such as in the “Poison Pen Mysteries.”On
weekends, she loves to hike to mountaintops, and, if it
gets too cold, she can make fire with sticks.
